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Perhaps the most effecting and accomlished of Jane Austen's novels, Sense and Sensability (which grew out of an adolescent sketch "Elinor and Marianne") tells the story of two sisters, a polar opposites Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, whose hopes of marring well are smashed when their family's estate is left to an arrogant step-son upon the death ... more »of their father.« less